New Podcast with AtkinsRéalis on Resilience to Climate Change

5th Dec 2024

New CIHT Podcast sponsored by AtkinsRéalis on the challenges of creating resilience to climate change in the transport network

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In the latest episode of CIHT’s Transport Talks, sponsored by AtkinsRéalis, experts Simon Shapcott, Net Zero Director, and Jo Bacon, Social and Behavioural Science Technical Director, dive into the pressing impacts of climate change on transport systems. 

Simon Shapcott highlights the crucial interdependencies between transportation, energy, water, and communication systems, showing how disruptions in one area can affect others. Looking forward, he points to a need for collaboration and a clear government vision to tackle upcoming challenges. 

Jo Bacon explains the importance of communicating climate risks clearly to communities to support informed decision-making and coordinated action on infrastructure resilience. 

Listen to the podcast below: 

CIHT’s podcast series is now available on (and on other podcast platforms - just search your favorite podcast provider and we should be there):

 

                           

Quotes from the podcast 

The weather is changing, it is predicted to get worse and globally countries aren’t responding. Weather events in transport do endanger life, they disrupt services, reduce revenue and they increase cost, (through direct damage to infrastructure or to insurance premiums) – part of the challenge is that transport underpins our daily lives and has a direct and more difficult calculation on the impact of our society as a whole

Simon Shapcott, Net Zero Director

     

The positive message is that you can get on top of these risks and you can predict potential climate change over a number of years and look at different scenarios that are likely to impact a particular area, asset, network or region. Once you identify and understand your hot spots, you can then begin to plan, anticipate, and prioritise impacts on your transport system and adapt and influence your decision making…. to maintain safety

Simon Shapcott, Net Zero Director

       

We need to be people centred about this, we need to encourage people through communication, but we also need to enable them through design – social and behavioural science is a golden thread through all of this. It comes into every stage of what we do, from understanding the problem, to ideating options, designing solutions and crucially we need to evaluate what we are doing, so we can continue to learn

Jo Bacon, Social and Behavioural Science Technical Director

       

     

Simon Shapcott, Net Zero Director at AtkinsRéalis

Simon Shapcott, Net Zero Director at AtkinsRéalis

    

Jo Bacon, Social and Behavioural Science Technical Director at AtkinsRéalis

Jo Bacon, Social and Behavioural Science Technical Director at AtkinsRéalis

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